Campaign Against Arms Trade’s new report exposes how the UK arms exports system is fundamentally broken and rigged in favour of pre-determined conclusions. The report focuses on two cases - the Saudi-led bombing of Yemen from 2015-2022, and Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. Both cases highlight how successive governments have taken extraordinary measures to circumvent

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This report summarises key quantitative and qualitative trends in UK arms exports in 2024, and in the 5-10 year periods up to 2023, using a variety of sources of information, official and otherwise.

The UK is deeply complicit in supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza: through arms sales, RAF reconnaissance flights over Gaza, from which it is suspected intelligence is shared with Israel, training of Israeli soldiers, and other forms of military cooperation.

Fact sheet on the legal context for arms transfers in F-35 partner nations and legal cases on arms sales to Israel in these and other countries

On 2 September, the UK government announced that it was suspending around 30 arms export sales to Israel, covering equipment that was due to go to the Israeli military, and that the government assessed were for use in Gaza. However, it exempted components for Israel's F-35 aircraft that are used to bomb Gaza, from the

CAAT and our partners Palestine Solidarity Campaign and War on Want have created this briefing which outlines all of the key background, facts and messages to help activists campaign to stop UK arms exports to Israel, and call for an immediate ceasefire.